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Tablets Mean Changes for the Enterprise

Plenty of hype has been offered as tablet computers (first the iPhone, then the iPad) arrived, sold in enormous numbers, and slowed PC sales. Software vendors were quick to deliver Apps – partly to ride the new wave and partly … Continue reading

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Storm vs Cloud

Once again, Mother Nature dashes the best laid plans of men. The Friday storm took down Amazon’s cloud data center in Virginia (once again). The storm disrupted power supplies for much of the greater DC area, including Amazon’s US-East-1 region. … Continue reading

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Hype, Mixed Messages, Snark, and Cover-up

The convergence of cloud, mobility, and consumerization of business technology make a competitive environment for ERP applications even tougher. No vendor can deploy all the answers today. This leads to exaggerated claims and snarky counter claims by the big ERP … Continue reading

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To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

[CEO presentation at this year’s user conference, ed.] Charting a new course Where to go? How to get there? As CEO, my focus is on leading HarrisData and our customers to a successful future. That requires answering a couple basic … Continue reading

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Cloud, Mobility, and Big Partners

IBM recently announced new PureSystems and PureFlex hardware for inhouse cloud deployment. The good news is, as Frank Scavo notes For some reason, Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM are able to make life easier for small developers. Thus HarrisData achieved certification … Continue reading

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Who is in Charge of Cloud Security?

Cloud service providers believe their customers are responsible for security, and license accordingly. That is the message cited by David Rosenbaum in his article on security risk and liability in the cloud. “Cloud,” says Bruce Lynne, managing partner of Financial … Continue reading

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Head in the Clouds

ERP analyst Derek Singleton posted a paean to the SaaS variant of cloud computing. With his head firmly in the clouds looking for rainbows covering five points, Derek does trip over one salient feature of modern computing—the user experience should … Continue reading

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Is Enterprise Integration the Next Hurdle for the Cloud?

Stephanie Neil poses an interesting question on whether SaaS and Cloud solutions create as much work in enterprise integration as they solve in reduced hardware and storage management. Enter software as a service (SaaS) applications, which might seem to be … Continue reading

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Cloud not Cheaper than On Premesis

As the cloud reality replaces the hype machine, sober analysis of costs and benefits is becoming available. Chris Chiappinelli sums it up nicely: A few years ago, there was a rampant assumption that software delivered via cloud computing was automatically … Continue reading

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Traditional ERP and the Cloud

Now that Microsoft is “All In” for the cloud, can a traditional ERP solution such as Microsoft Dynamics make the transition to a cloud solution? If getting to the cloud were only a technology problem, the folks at Microsoft could eventually … Continue reading

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